In 2021, Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan recognized a critical gap in enterprise security: traditional tools built for on-premise environments were failing to protect data in the cloud era. As businesses migrated to cloud infrastructure and began exploring generative AI, sensitive data was spreading across countless SaaS applications, databases, and AI tools - creating blind spots that legacy security solutions couldn't address. They founded Cyera with a clear mission to build the world's first truly AI-native data security platform.
What started as a vision to give organizations complete visibility into their data has evolved into the fastest-growing data security company in history. Cyera's agentless platform deploys in minutes and uses advanced AI to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premise, and AI ecosystems with 95% accuracy. Today, trusted by security leaders at Fortune 1000 companies including AT&T, Paramount, and BlueCross BlueShield, Cyera has secured over $1.7 billion in funding from top-tier investors like Sequoia, Accel, and Blackstone - proving that data security is the next frontier of cybersecurity.